The nightmare of drugs in parcels has a face and a name. Tonight at 10:15 p.m., two French citizens accused of being the masterminds of a drug trafficking operation that intended to send 35 kilos of cocaine to Europe hidden in packages simulating shipments from multinational companies will set foot on Argentine soil. They are Ahmed Adda Belkocir, 46, and Isaac Ben Daoude, 36, who were extradited from Uruguay after being arrested at Carrasco airport when they tried to return to Buenos Aires with fake Argentine documents.
The transfer operation is being carried out by the Federal Fugitive and Extradition Investigation Division of the Interpol Department of the Argentine Federal Police. The officers traveled to Uruguay this morning on a Buquebus ferry and will return with the detainees on the same service. Once in the country, by order of economic criminal judge Marcelo Aguinsky, the suspects will be handed over to the Airport Security Police and then questioned by the magistrate.
The so-called «Operation Oh là là» began on April 24, when Customs and the PSA detected a suspicious package in the courier sector of Ezeiza. Inside, a plastic box hid 11 vacuum-packed bricks of cocaine, marked with a scorpion, the gang’s seal. The shipment exceeded $165,000. It had been declared as packages of sugar. From there, an international investigation was launched with France and a controlled delivery to catch the recipients in Paris.
Belkocir and Daoude, who had already dispatched the parcel, fled to Uruguay on a flight from Aeroparque. At that time, there was no arrest warrant, but security cameras gave them away. Investigators tracked the taxi that took them to the airport and found the driver, who had picked them up from a temporary apartment in Palermo. Judge Aguinsky searched the place and seized key documentation.
But it didn’t end there. Days later, a second shipment fell at Ezeiza: more than 12 kilos of cocaine hidden inside an air compressor. Investigators noted the similarities and connected the dots. Finally, the two Frenchmen were arrested in Carrasco when they tried to return to Argentina. Uruguayan judge Huberto Álvarez approved the extradition.
In May, a raid on an apartment at Mansilla 3800 in Palermo, which the suspects had rented, uncovered a box «forgotten» in the living room containing 12 kilos of cocaine. But it was not the only property: they also rented on Avenida Juan B. Justo, also in Palermo. Investigators believe there are more properties rented by the gang that could hide more drugs. «It could be a risk atomization operation,» sources explained.
Para mí estos dos chetos de mierda son la punta del iceberg, la guita de la coca siempre sale de sangre laburante. Ojalá les caiga todo el peso, pero con jueces vendidos al poder nada cambia. Esto huele a yankees y CIA metiendo mano, ¡fuera de América Latina!
para mi estos dos mugrientos franchutes se tienen q pudrir en una carcel argenta pero ya los veo sueltos x progres la culpa es de los jueces zurdos q siempre cuidan a delincuentes extranjeros argentina primero carajo firmado el gaucho inmortal